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AMERICA'S GREATEST GARDEN: THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM. By E. H. Wilson. Illustrated. 123 PF. Cloth. Boston: The Stratford Company. 1925. ODES FROM THE DIVAN OF HAFIZ. Freely rendered from literal translations, by Richard Le Gallienne. 194 pp. Cloth. Boston: Issued for the St. Botolph Society by L. C. Page & Co. 1925. LEAVES FROM MY LIFE. By Annie Kilburn Kilmer, mother of Joyce Kilmer. 153 pp. Cloth. New York: Frye Publishing Co. 1925.

LITERARY ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS.

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THE OUTLOOK FOR WESTERN CIVILIZATION. I. The Literature of Despair. Glenn Frank. Century for July.

SINCLAIR LEWIS AND SHERWOOD ANDERSON. Carl Van Doren. Century for July.

GLIMPSES OF INTERESTING AMERICANS. With portraits of William Allen White, Willa Sibert Cather, Ring Lardner, and Will Rogers. Walter Tittle. Century for July.

WHEN I WAS AN EDITOR. Illustrated. Jerome K. Jerome. Harper's Magazine for July.

A NEW WAY WITH OLD MASTERPIECES. Thomas Hardy. Illustrated. Ernest Boyd. per's Magazine for July.

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THE PASSING OF AMY LOWELL. Hervey Allen. Bookman for July.

JOSEPH CONRAD. Cecil Roberts. July.

Bookman for

THE CASE OF THE LYRICAL LYRIC. Lionel Stevenson. Canadian Bookman for June.

GETTING INTO SIX FIGURES. VII. Kathleen Norris. Arnold Patrick. July.

Charles and Bookman for

THE TRUTH ABOUT ARTHUR MACHEN. John Gunther. Bookman for July.

THE SANITY OF WILLIAM BLAKE. Joseph Collins. Bookman for July.

A playwright and his producers in New York city are held by a United States District Court judge to be guilty of "unconscious plagiarism." It was charged that these men wrote and produced a play which was, in many details, identical with another man's play. They were sued, and they lost. After ruling them guilty of "unconscious plagiarism," the judge ordered them to turn over to the plaintiff all royalties and profits.

The Poets' Guild, with headquarters at the Christodora House, New York, launched the idea of having June 1 recognized nationally as Poets' day, with no compulsion, however, for its observance. Every municipality will be urged to have its favorite poem officially selected. These prize verses will be joined in an unbound anthology for the state, and the best poetry in each state will go toward a national compendium.

Until August 29 applications will be received by the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. — which will send information and application blanks on request

The Limerick Society of America has been organized in New York with these officers, including leading light-verse writers: President, Oliver Herford; vice-presidents, Carolyn Wells, Thomas L. Masson, Wallace Irwin, Dr. Sigmund Spaeth ; directors, Christopher Morley, Jane Grant, Ida Clyde Clark, Loring Pickering, Lemuel F. Parton, William Johnston, Captain Felix Riesenberg, S. B. Dixon, of San Francisco, Daniel Shanedling, editor of the San Francisco Argonaut, and Jake Falstaff, of Akron, Ohio. The Society will make rules and regulations establishing a standard in limerick writing, and will award prizes for the best limericks in contests open to all

comers.

The Newberry Medal, established by Frederick G. Melcher, of New York, to be awarded annually for the most distinguished contribution to literature for children, has been awarded to Charles J. Finger, for his book, "Tales from Silverlands."

They are erecting a monument to Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer out in Hannibal, Mo.

Feeling that there should be an adequate memorial of Walt Whitman in New York, the Authors Club has appointed a committee to ✔solicit public contributions to the amount of

$40,000 for the erection of a statue or other memorial to be executed by the best artist that can be had and to be placed in some public park in New York City.

Pierre Loti's son has expressed the hope to friends and admirers of his father who wish to erect a statue to his memory that they will conform to a wish often expressed by the writer to be represented as a young man wearing the uniform of a naval officer.

The American Library Association has published a "New Guide to Reference Books," by Isadore Gilbert Mudge, reference librarian at Columbia University.

"The Essay: How to Study and Write It," by D. Davis Farrington, M.A., is published by the Johnson Publishing Company (Richmond, Virginia ).

"Aid to Rhyme," by Bessie G. Redfield (G. P. Putnam's Sons ), is a rhyming dictionary, with the words arranged by their final sounds.

Adventures in Life and Letters," by Michael Monahan (Frank Maurice, Inc.), is a new edition of a book first published thirteen years ago.

"Representative American Dramas; National and Local," edited, with introductions, by Montrose J. Moses, is published by Little, Brown, & Co.

"The Common Reader," by Virginia Woolf (Harcourt, Brace, & Co.), is a collection of essays on literature from Chaucer to the present day.

"An Outline of Biography from Plutarch to Strachey," with a bibliography, by Wilbur L. Cross, is published by Henry Holt & Co.

John Farrar, since 1920 editor of the Bookman, has been appointed editor of George H. Doran Company. He will continue as editor of the Bookman.

Frederick Roy Martin, formerly general manager of the Associated Press, has become vice-president and general manager of D. Appleton & Co.

William Randolph Hearst has purchased Town and Country (New York). There will be no change in the present management, and H. J. Whigham will continue as editor.

The New York Nation observed its sixtieth anniversary with its issue for July 1.

Mary Cholmondeley died at Kensington, London, England, July 15.

Helen H. Gardener died in Washington, July 27, aged seventy-one.

The fourth printing of this Directory - which is constantly being revised and enlarged began in THE WRITER for July, 1922. The information for it. showing the manuscript market and the manuscript requirements of the various publications listed, is gathered directly from the editors of the periodicals. Great pains are taken to make the information accurate and the Directory complete.

Before submitting manuscripts to any publication, it is advisable to secure a sample copy.

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Junior Christian Endeavor World (M). 41 Mt. Vernon st., Boston, Mass. 50c.; 5c. Amos R. Wells, editor.

A juvenile paper, printing serials, short stories, general articles, and poetry. Does not buy humorous verse or jokes. Sets length limit at about 1,500 words. Does not often buy photographs, and pays on acceptance.

Junior Home Magazine (M), 1018 South Wabash ave., Chicago. $2.50; 25c. Bertha M. Hamilton, editor.

Devoted to the educational entertainment of the children in the home. Uses short stories, short serials, plays, poetry, humorous verse, jokes, and juvenile matter generally. Sets limits at 3.000 words, buys photographs, and pays on publication. Formerly the Junior Instructor Magazine.

Junior Success, National Children's Savings Association, 122 S. Michigan ave., Chicago. Carroll S. de Jong, editor.

Mail returned by the post office. Junior World (W), American Baptist Publication Society, 1701 Chestnut st., Philadelphia, Penn. 32C. yr. single copy, 40c. yr.); 8c. quarter yr. Nan F. Weeks, editor.

Uses short stories, serials, general articles, poetry, humorous verse, and jokes, which, without being preachy," carry a high moral tone, all suited to children between nine and sixteen years old. Buys puzzles and handicraft matter for those departments. Sets length limit at 2,500 words, buys photographs, prefers stories of adventure for boys and girls under seventeen that depict moral as well as physical courage, and pays on the fifteenth of the month.

Junior World (W), Christian Board of Publication, Sunday School Editorial Department, 2704 Pine st., St. Louis, Mo. 6oc. Constance Warren, editor.

A Sunday-school publication for boys of from nine to twelve years, using short stories, serials, general articles of informational matter on present-day topics, and a little poetry; buys photographs, sets length limit at from 1,800 to 2,500 words, and pays in the month following accep

tance.

Juvenile, The (formerly the Juvenile Court Record) (M), 1012 Hearst Building, Chicago. P. D. Her wit, editor.

Uses articles devoted to the benefit of the dependent and delinquent child, but prints no fiction. Sets length limit at from 1,500 to 2,000 words, buys photographs, and pays on acceptance. Juvenile Instructor (M), 47 East South Temple st., Salt Lake City, Utah. $1.50; 15c. Helen J. Grant, editor; Geo. D. Pyper, associate editor.

A Sunday-school magazine, for which contributions are received chiefly from its own denomina

The third printing of this Back numbers can be supplied. the Directory complete, with

tion and territory. Uses short stories, serials, general articles, and poetry; occasionally buys photographs; and pays on publication.

Kansas City Star Magazine (W), Kansas City, Mo. E. B. Garnett, editor.

Distributed weekly with the Kansas City Sunday Star. Uses short stories - love stories, with high-class characters, excellently written, and some general articles; no verse, serials, novelettes, jokes, plays, or juvenile matter, Sets length limit at 5,000 words, and buys photographs if genuinely attractive. Wants only the highest type of material; buys little, and pays only a moderate price. Payment for accepted material will be made the month following publication, but unsolicited material cannot be returned unless accompanied by stamped and self-addressed envelope.

Keith's Magazine (M), 100 North Seventh st., Minneapolis, Minn. $2.00; 25c. Edna Knowles King,

managing editor.

Kindergarten and First Grade Magazine (M, except July and August ). Milton Bradley Company, Springfield, Mass. Editorial office, 23 Washington place, New York. $2.00; 25c. Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, editor.

Uses articles on up-to-date educational methods as expressed in the kindergarten and primary grades, particularly having to do with applications of the project methods and correlation of the subject matter of the curriculum with the child's environment. Such articles may present sandtable and craftwork suggestions, story-telling, new methods of developing reading, writing, geography, and other subjects of the child's first school year. Uses also articles for mothers giving practical help for the pre-school child, covering health, home discipline, home use of materials and tools of early education, and suggestions for co-operation between the home and the school. Also news items telling what is being accomplished through the efforts of national and local organizations and by the individual teachers for better childhood in the school, the home, and the community. Articles should contain from 1,600 to 2,000 words, and news-feature stories from 2,000 to 2,500 words. Timely manuscripts should reach the editorial office four months in advance of the date of publication, except in the case of news items which may be scheduled in a month. Pays one-half cent a word, and $ro a page for drawings.

Kindergarten-Primary Magazine (M, except July and August), Manistee, Michigan. 75c. J. H. Shults, editor.

Uses articles especially helpful to kindergartners and primary teachers, printing short stories and juvenile matter for the smallest children, and verses for little people. Has special departments, does not buy photographs, and sets length limit at 500 words.

VOL. XXXVII.

In my talk on the short story I deplored the tendency toward forcing it into a narrow formula. I have the same feeling about the novel and the play. Indeed I have the feeling that any work of art which were technically perfect would be a monstrosity. I have said before that every work of art has an organic unity like a man or a rose or a radish, rather than a logical mathematical unity such as we see in a circle or an ellipse. The so-called faults of any person we know and love are part of his personality, and the same is true of a work of art. Its very imperfections are

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qualities that make it what it is, and make it a thing that causes it to live before us.

Just as there are no hard and fast rules determining what constitutes a short story or a novel and as there are no perfect examples of romantic or realistic literature, so the dramatic form is never perfect. We could go to one of the simplest and most concrete elements, the number of acts. At first blush, we should assume that five acts was the limit in any play, and yet the most successful plays of recent years, "Lilliom" and "Emperor Jones," for instance, contain many more acts, which because of their number are called scenes. A friend of mine who studied a few years ago at a well known dramatic school informed me that Oscar Wilde's technique was old-fashioned because he used soliloquies. It seemed reasonable to me that the soliloquy had gone out. It seemed too unnatural for modern audiences. Yet in " Emperor Jones," one of the most successful plays in recent years done by any English-speaking playwright, the whole play after the first scene is practically soliloquy. It all goes to prove that we cannot be held by any simple little statement that a two-year-old can understand and practice.

In my last talk I spoke of the well constructed or built-up play. I did not mean necessarily to hold it up as a model. If plays that fail to measure up to this standard were discounted, we should have to discount almost every play of merit on the English-speaking stage. Almost all of Shakspere would disappear, for example. Go through any of Shakspere's plays you wish and see what scenes you would omit or modify because they were not integral parts leading toward the climax. In scene after scene in Shakspere you will find that from a point of view of action they have no plot value whatever. Also you will find scenes in Shakspere that have a story